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Author Trudgen, Richard Ian

Title Why warriors lie down & die : towards an understanding of why the Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land face the greatest crisis in health and education since European contact : djambatj mala / by Richard Trudgen
Published Darwin : Aboriginal Resource & Development Services Inc, 2000
Darwin : Aboriginal Resource and Development Services Inc., 2000
©2000

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 W'PONDS  305.89915 Tru/Wwl  DUE 03-04-24
Description vi, 270 pages : maps ; 25 cm
regular print
Contents Part 1. The Yolnu of Arnhem Land -- 1. Wanarr's gift is broken -- 2. A crisis in living -- 3. The trouble with Yolnu is -- Part 2. A war of words -- 4. The essence of human interaction - communication -- 5. What language do you dream in? -- 6. Thirteen years of wanting to know -- 7. You can hear the grass grow -- 8. Is the age of knowledge and thinking at an end? -- Part 3. The cost of being different -- 9. Witch doctor is the real doctor -- 10. Living hell -- 11. Stop the world - I want to get off -- Part 4. Warriors they were and warriors they can be again -- 12. Owners of information -- 13. Treating the symptoms or the cause? -- 14. Rewriting the future
Summary Why warriors lie down and die
Analysis Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians - Education
Aboriginal Australians - Health and hygiene
Notes Aboriginal content
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Health and hygiene.
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Arnhem Land (N.T.)
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Northern Territory -- Arnhem Land
Yolngu (Australian people)
Yolngu (Australian people) -- Education.
Yolngu (Australian people) -- Health and hygiene.
Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
SUBJECT Arnhem Land (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007377 -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007552
Author Mala, Djambatj
Aboriginal Resource and Development Services
LC no. 2001535920
ISBN 0646395874
Other Titles Djambatj mala
Why warriors lie down and die